Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMATrying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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